[TriLUG] Bizarre web site

[Justis Peters]

I just did an experiment to confirm what I suspected and was pleased 
with the results. This technique preserves the existing protocol 
selection upon redirection offsite. If you have links between multiple 
web properties that you control, this would be particularly valuable. 
Any users who had chosen to secure their session by moving to HTTPS, 
probably by clicking a "secure my session" link, would be directed to 
the new subdomain with the HTTPS part of the URL in their browser. Those 
who had left it as HTTP would just get another HTTP session. It makes 
the whole thing appear more seamless, at least if all your SSL 
certificates are up to date.

Kind regards,
Justis

Warren Myers wrote:
> What part of that URI looks illegal to you?
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> >From the HTTP RFE, the authority part (//) is the only required
> portion to point offsite.
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> WMM
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> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
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>> Folks,
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>> Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have run across a web site that seems to
>> be running ( successfully? ) with what appear to be illegal (
>> non-standard! ) URIs.
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>> They have many references that look like:
>> src="//www.crutchfield.com/js/menudropfix.js" in CSS, Javascript ( this
>> one ) and other places.
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>> Am I just out of touch, and this is perfectly valid, or ???
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>> Thanks,
>> Brian
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